The Rhetorical Presidency: New EditionPrinceton University Press, 7 nov. 2017 - 264 pages Modern presidents regularly appeal over the heads of Congress to the people at large to generate support for public policies. The Rhetorical Presidency makes the case that this development, born at the outset of the twentieth century, is the product of conscious political choices that fundamentally transformed the presidency and the meaning of American governance. Now with a new foreword by Russell Muirhead and a new afterword by the author, this landmark work probes political pathologies and analyzes the dilemmas of presidential statecraft. Extending a tradition of American political writing that begins with The Federalist and continues with Woodrow Wilson’s Congressional Government, The Rhetorical Presidency remains a pivotal work in its field. |
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... theory and structure of governance persist in the conduct of contemporary American politics? Most importantly, what have been the political consequences of the development of the modern rhetorical presidency? This book offers an account ...
... theory of governance, and many of them found practical expression as well in nineteenthcentury administrations. In fact, our first president, George Washington—with Hamilton's guidance—fashioned a legislative program, used the veto for ...
... theory explicitly proscribed such development, and that nineteenth-century practice embodied that proscription. All accounts of political change presuppose a systemic posture, a view of what constitutes the essential character of the ...
... theory continue to accept his fundamentally presidential perspective. For many critics of Neustadt, the most troublesome aspect of presidential arrogation of power was that it had made it harder for presidents to accomplish their ...
... theory can survive this sort of attack upon its original formulation. This is because Neustadt's second legacy—the president as bargainer—is subservient to the first—the scholar as institutional partisan. The skillful use of popular ...